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- Dictionarynow/nou/
adverb
- 1. at the present time or moment: "where are you living now?" Similar
- 2. used, especially in conversation, to draw attention to a particular statement or point in a narrative: "now, my first impulse was to run away"
conjunction
- 1. as a consequence of the fact: "they spent a lot of time together now that he had retired"
adjective
- 1. fashionable or up to date: informal "seventies disco dancing—very now"
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1. a. : at the present time or moment. Now is the time for action. b. : in the time immediately before the present. thought of them just now. c. : in the time immediately to follow : forthwith. come in now. 2. used with the sense of present time weakened or lost to express command, request, or admonition. now hear this. now you be sure to write. 3.
We use now most commonly as an adverb of time. It means ‘at the present time’, ‘at this moment’ or ‘very soon’. We usually put now with this meaning in end position: …
Now definition: at the present time or moment. See examples of NOW used in a sentence.
You use now or now that to indicate that an event has occurred and as a result something else may or will happen. Now you're settled, why don't you take up some serious study? Now that she was retired she lived with her sister.
4 days ago · Think of now as being the immediate present, the moment you are currently in. It’s part of the elusive concept of time, and each now, as it passes, becomes "then" even as it is replaced by a new now.
1. Of the present time; current: our now governor. 2. Slang Currently fashionable; trendy: the now sound of this new rock band. Idiom: now and again/then.
now adverb (LENGTH OF TIME) B2. used to show the length of time that something has been happening, from the time it began until the present: I've lived in Canada for two years now.
Definition of NOW in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
now. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English now1 /naʊ/ S1 W1 adverb 1 at the present time at this time They now live in the city centre. There’s nothing I can do about this right now (=exactly now). by now Sonia should have been home by now.
without further delay; immediately; at once: Either do it now or not at all. at this time or juncture in some period under consideration or in some course of proceedings described: The case was now ready for the jury. at the time or moment immediately past: I saw him just now on the street. in these present times;
